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Daft Punk announce drumless edition of random access memories
- m3kw9 3y agoWhen will this become a trend, to release drumless versions of great albums? Waiting for more.
- drt5b7j 3y agoWhat did I miss? People hate drums now?
- newsclues 3y agoRemixes and sampling
- gchamonlive 3y agoYou can enjoy song covers just as much as the original song, the same way having drumless songs isn't a statement against the original "drumful" release. Others said it already, it serves well for other artists to easily sample and remix the songs.
- rossant 3y agoWhat if you want to practice drums on the music?
- ssharp 3y agoThere have been a number of artists who have released stems of songs/albums.
- imjonse 3y agoor drumless versions of bad albums, making them better...
- bastardoperator 3y agoIt's been a trend, and you can do it yourself aka stem extraction. https://www.lalal.ai/ https://www.lalal.ai/
- prismatix 3y agoThere's a trend of artists releasing "stripped" versions of songs, which typically don't have drums or heavy production. Try searching for those.
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- bloopernova 3y agoThe article didn't mention why they'd release a version of their album without drums.
- Dobbs 3y agoLooked it up on google/reddit. Turns out it is for DJs who remix music.
- neuracnu 3y agoMuting the percussion on a track allows the melodies to be more easily sampled in other songs and mixes. I imagine that this is a way to help their music be plugged into future songs.
- Waterluvian 3y agoIf this is why… why not just release all the individual layers? I’ve always wondered how remixes come to be. Some sound muddy and obviously full of muted layers. But others sound like they had access to the individual tracks.
- thrtythreeforty 3y ago"All the individual layers" are called "stems" and artists that want to explicitly encourage remixes of their work will release stems. (Of course, you still pay royalties if you use them.) You can also create your own stems, typically of usable but not perfect quality, using AI track separation software like demucs. ("Demux," get it?) I've used them to censor a track, or to isolate just percussion and piano, for example.
- Waterluvian 3y agoThanks for the name!
- jonhohle 3y agoRoyalties aside, in this Creative Commons, remix/mashup heavy inline world, why aren’t bass releasing multi tracks? A decade ago remix.nin.com provided multitracks and Garage Band and Ableton projects to remix and upload. Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D and Ghosts had the same on CD-ROM (Ghosts was Creative Commons which led to 34 Ghosts IV being sampled and later included in Old Town Road). The Slip stems were released publicly under CC as well. People went further and pulled tracks from Rock Band. Are there other big bands that have done this? While not getting down to raw assets, home movies have had special features describing filmmaking techniques since the 80s. I’d guess at least 10% of current home video releases come with some type of commentary, featurette, or the like. Why is this so much less common in the music industry?
- awestroke 3y agoIs this to make remixing/sampling easier for other artists? Or do some people actually prefer drumless?
- mortenjorck 3y agoI don’t think “prefers” is the right framing, insofar as I don’t know of anyone who prefers writing in an esoteric language for everyday purposes. But it’s an interesting deconstruction of some familiar music.
- MiguelX413 3y agoI can certainly think of people who prefer writing in an esoteric language for everyday purposes.
- redwall_hp 3y agoIt's for DJs. Daft Punk is House music, and powerful drums are an defining part of the whole genre...which is also heavily based on sampling and remixing. A live DJ can easily pair this with another song, or their own percussion/instrumental tracks, since it doesn't have any to clash with them. Stem files are a common way to do this nowadays, but the original roots of the House genre were people sampling disco a capellas onto sampling keyboards and playing them with their own music, using TR-909 drums, keyboards like the notorious Korg M1, etc.
- dylan604 3y agoMaybe they’ve heard the shit results from all of the AI tools to create stems from songs, and don’t want their music to sound like that.
- justinator 3y agoDrumless?! But weee've gone too faaar to give uuup who we aaare!
- bloopernova 3y agoI hope this trend continues. I like to make notification sounds and ringtones from short melodies in songs I like. For instance I had Green Day's Brain Stew as my on-call ringtone :) If more stems (I learned a new word!) are made available then I can make cleaner sounds. Very cool stuff!
- letmecheckhn 3y agoFor everyone commenting that they want more songs without drums, https://www.lalal.ai/ https://www.lalal.ai/ is a great tool for splitting stems (vocals solo, drums solo) - software like this is how modern DJ's remix big songs so quivkly without onerous bargaining with labels for stems. Enjoy!!!
- zerr 3y agoBass-less would be good as well.
- sixQuarks 3y agoThey’re using Elon Musk principles. No part is the best part. Eventually they will release an album with complete silence
- zja 3y ago“Contact” without the drums will be interesting.
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoTheir set at the trash fence this year was amazing
- dpflan 3y agoInstant classic, every time.
- 12bits 3y agoRoc Marciano and Alchemist influence is branching out? I'm looking forward to checking this out